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If the European Commission has its way, all air travelers regardless of nationality will have to give their personal details to national authorities when they fly in or out of the European Union.The commission presented its proposals on Wednesday for a European Union-wide Passenger Name Record PNR Directive to fight serious crime and terrorism. Under the proposal, passengers flying to and from destinations in the E.U. would have their data, including home address, mobile phone number, credit card information and e-mail address, checked and stored by national police.This PNR data is already collected by airlines as a byproduct of their business, and there are agreements to share this data among the E.U. and the U.S., Canada and Australia. However, the commissionrsquo proposal will greatly widen the scope and increase the amount of data collected. The commission said that such a measure was needed in order to crack down on terrorism. While terrorism decreased in the EU during 2009, according to Europolrsquo E.U. Terrorism Situation and Trend Report 2010, the threat of terrorism remains real and serious. Most terrorist activities are transnational i
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polene 03 Customer satisfaction with the e-commerce industry improved for the second year in a row, nearing an all-time high, according to the latest American Customer Satisfaction Index ACSI , which measures the online performance of a variety of sites. Overall, the score for the e-commerce industry rose to 80 on the ACSIrsquo 100-point scale, with a year-over-year increase of 0.5%, closing in on its all-time high score of 80.8 in 2003, according to Ann Arbor, Mich.-based ForeSee Results Inc., a sponsor of the ACSI, which is produced by the University of Michigan.The e-commerce sector continued to outpace most other sectors of the economy in terms of satisfying custome
polene bag rs, exceeding the national ACSI aggregate score ndash; 74.9 ndash; by 7%, according to the survey. The Internet is a hyper-competitive environment, and companies need to evolve and adapt quickly to customer needs and expectations or risk losing them, said Larry Freed, president and CEO of ForeSee Results, in the statement. The improved scores are evidence that e-commerce companies are working hard to maintain and improve the industryrsquo extremely high customer satisfaction standards.In the online retail categor
stanley canada y, Barnesandnoble, with a score of 88, and Amazon, with a score of 87, posted the top scores, according to the survey.Barnesandnoble Inc. and Amazon Inc. have taken different approaches to their online operations, according to
